{"id":353753,"date":"2021-03-30T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=353753"},"modified":"2021-03-30T21:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:17:01","slug":"gop-rep-gaetz-denies-sexual-misconduct-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-gaetz-denies-sexual-misconduct-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Gaetz denies sexual misconduct claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-rep-gaetz-denies-sexual-misconduct-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=353753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 30: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) spoke to the media on October 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:03 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, March 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is speaking out over the recent sexual misconduct allegations made against him.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on Tuesday, the Florida representative named former DOJ official David McGee as the man who is trying to extort him and his family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) on Fox News just accused David McGee, former DOJ official now with the Florida law firm Beggs &amp; Lane, of attempting to extort him. McGee did not immediately responded to requests for comment via email\/phone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J05P0cGseP\">pic.twitter.com\/J05P0cGseP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnkruzel\/status\/1377060193603837954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz said the allegations against him are false and rooted in an extortion effort to smear his name for $25 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.<\/p>\n<p>We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1377043626803486722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This came after a bombshell New York Times report detailed that Gaetz may be under investigation for sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz confirmed he and his family have been cooperating with authorities for months. So far, no charges have been brought against him.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/new-migrant-caravan-leaves-from-honduras-heads-to-the-u-s-border\/\">New Migrant Caravan Leaves From Honduras, Heads To The U.S. Border<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 30: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) spoke to the media on October 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 6:03 PM PT &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275868,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}